The CAVS may not go very far in the playoffs without Lebron, but I'm willing to bet they are going to see exactly how much better of a TEAM they are without Lebron. That's not to say that Lebron wasn't key to getting them to where they are, but now you will see a better offense with more ball movement as oppose to only two players being involved in the offense at all times. Lebron was just that good that he could carry a team, but now that he's gone the team will have to play as a team and not passengers. Byron Scott will bring a different context to the team. Look for Daniel Gibson to have more of role in the offense.

There is a distinct difference between the terms outsourcing, offshoring, and subcontracting. The author is definitely using the term outsourcing correctly. Steven, what your example is describing is offshoring.

Lebron's future hinges not upon max dollars in terms of salary, but in terms his merchandising presence in the global market. The only way he can accomplish that is maximum exposure in overseas, namely China. This maximum exposure will only happen with a team that has the best potential for winning a championship NEXT SEASON. I can really see Lebron taking considerably less, with the mindset of giving room for that team to sign the maximum number of top tier free agents. That allows financial exposure outside of the U.S. and the greatest potential for an NBA Championship. Don't sleep on NY's starting 5 including Lebron, Anthony, Wade & Bosh. Something about these 4 with the same contract structure they are coming out of and the timing of their free agency. These guys aren't dummies, and neither one of them are hurting financially.

I thought it was just me that shockingly felt that way about Euclid. I lived there during the latter part of the 90's....as soon as I moved out I was getting pulled over LEFT AND RIGHT for the most ridiculous reasons. Once I made a LEGAL right turn off Babbit to jump on 90. The cop put on the ticket that I made an illegal right turn....I took pictures from 6 different angles to court and beat the ticket.

Other than that....good for Euclid...that's too much land to lose to a nonprofit organization that will not boost the faltering economy in that city.

If his friends are in charge of his PR they are doing him a HUGE disservice and should be fired. I bet all LBJ's sponsors including Nike are spinning their heads about this one. Jordan must be laughing his head off. Even with MJ's negative issues with women, gambling and marriage issues, his PR when it comes to sales and marketing didn't skip a beat. Look for LBJ's finanical future to be affected by his perception of indecision. If he leaves or stays nothing POSITIVE is coming out of the perception of him in the media with this. So sad.....

Although we are so much better than last year, we aren't good enough to beat the top teams this year. Get your rocks off now with LBJ in a CAVS uni...because he's GONE next year when they tank it AGAIN.

I will say this, if a custodial parent chases after a noncustodial parent for payment, that's up to the individual. Noncustodial parents must keep in mind, 9 times out of 10 its not the custodial parent that is the stimulant to the suspension of drivers licenses, arrests, and garnishment...it's the law. For every case, similar to "tiphie11", there are numerous others who do not call CSEA every month or at all for that matter, but still suffer the ills of neglect or payment avoidance. To blame the custodial parent and call that individual money hungry and "thirsty" is futile when it is the law that is chasing after you, not the parent.

The emphasis is not on the money, more than it is the financial welfare of the child. Noncustodial parents that fall on hard times have more rights than they realize. It takes nothing for them to contact CSEA and inform them of their unfortunate financial situation and measures will be taken to accomodate both parents. The 8 listed above either have been on hard times for an average of 5 to 18 years or they are attempting to get away with circumventing the system. Suspended driver's license or jail time is only envoked when wilfull actions of payment aviodance behavior is exhibited by the noncustodial parent. Again, the 8 arrested above are not individuals that have missed one or two payments, these are those that have missed YEARS of nonpayment. How do you propose payment of child support should be enforced? If a person doesn't pay their car note, the car gets repossessed. If a person doesn't pay a mortgage, it gets forclosed. If a person doesn't pay taxes, wages get garnished. All of these negative responses, just like child support, have measures offered by the loan officers or banks, to be taken to avoid the ultimate, garnishment. It's up to the individual to contact the powers that be to avoid the inevitable.

The option before a magistrate of the court of law is available to noncustodial parents to prove that they are unemployable and have no means to pay the support. If the CSEA can take up to 55% of an individuals paycheck, it may have to do with the fact that either the noncustodial parent has more than one child to support or they are in arrears for a significant amount of money.

CSEA is an agency that wasn't put in place to chase noncustodial parents by hiding in bushes, verify that fathers are being paid over instead of "under the table" and research why all a noncustodial parent's assets are in their "momma's name" to avoid garnishment. Therefore, due to the ignorance of noncustodial parents, they take away police officers from solving violent crimes to chase after idiots that don't want to accept their financial responsibilty of 8 minutes of pleasure.

BTW, $16,823 for a 5 year old, which is $3,365 a year, which is ONLY $280 dollars a month. That means, the noncustodial parent only reports approximately $17K a year in income because child support in OH after taxes is 20%.

How do you enforce payment then? We're past the aspect of planned parenthood. If child support is NOT paid, then transfer payments like welfare and other publically funded programs are exhausted. Then the taxpayers pay, which is more than a few nights in jail. Please note, these deadbeats don't miss a few payments here and there, when it gets past 2K, they are warned numerous times. At 5K, they are innundated with mailings to come up to par. The noncustodial parents that are arrested are beating the system anyway by not being paid with checks to track their social security number and are beating the system anyway by being paid "under the table." I don't understand how anyone could say jail is unfair to the noncustodial parent, when they are cheating the systems in place to catch them anyway.

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